Does Putin believe that "he is entitled to parts of Ukraine", or would he have been satisfied with the implementation of Minsk 2 (United Nations Security Council Resolution 2202 of 2015) if the West (and Kyiv) had been willing to follow through on it? Whatever one believes about this, the implementation of Minsk 2 would have provided an…
Does Putin believe that "he is entitled to parts of Ukraine", or would he have been satisfied with the implementation of Minsk 2 (United Nations Security Council Resolution 2202 of 2015) if the West (and Kyiv) had been willing to follow through on it? Whatever one believes about this, the implementation of Minsk 2 would have provided an opportunity to test Putin's real intentions, it would have been fair to the largely ethnic-Russian population of the Donbas, and it would have been in accord with international law (UNSC 2202).
Does Putin believe that "he is entitled to parts of Ukraine", or would he have been satisfied with the implementation of Minsk 2 (United Nations Security Council Resolution 2202 of 2015) if the West (and Kyiv) had been willing to follow through on it? Whatever one believes about this, the implementation of Minsk 2 would have provided an opportunity to test Putin's real intentions, it would have been fair to the largely ethnic-Russian population of the Donbas, and it would have been in accord with international law (UNSC 2202).